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Birgitta Jónsdóttir at the Berlin-based re:publica 2013 conference: "Iceland could have been innovative: Participatory democracy."

Born in Reykjavík to Bergþóra Árnadóttir and Jón Ólafsson, Birgitta is also a poet, writer, artist, editor, publisher, and activist, and has used the internet for these activities. Her first poetry collection was published by Iceland's biggest publisher, Almenna Bókafélagið (AB books) in 1989. Birgitta organized Art against war, where a number of Icelandic artists and poets came out to protest the Iraq War. She set up the first Icelandic online art gallery in 1996 for the Apple Shop. Birgitta has participated in several international projects related to writing and activism including "Poets Against the War, Dialogue among Nations through Poetry, and Poets for Human Rights. She also edited and published the The World Healing Book and The Book of Hope, which contain writings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rita Dove, the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Michael Lerner, John Kinsella, and Sigur Rós. Birgitta is a founder of Beyond Borders Press and Radical Creations. She is also a part of the International Network of Parliamentarians for Tibet (INPaT).

The information demanded by the DOJ is sweeping in scope. It includes all mailing addresses and billing information known for the user, all connection records and session times, all IP addresses used to access Twitter, all known email accounts, as well as the "means and source of payment," including banking records and credit cards. It seeks all of that information for the period beginning November 1, 2009, through the present.[12]

On 14 April 2011 Wired published an article "WikiLeaks Associates Hit Back Over U.S. Twitter Records Demand" describing a "contentious legal battle with the Justice Department" which included the three Wikileaks volunteers charging in a court filing that the government’s argument “trivializes both the Parties’ and the public’s constitutional rights.”[13]